There was justice to be had. He just couldn’t afford it. - James S. A. Corey

Holden decided that he was okay with not feeling any remorse for them. The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm glow of victory instead.

There was no point to the attack except spite and the kind of violence that passed for meaning in the face of despair.

Ah! I see what you're doing," Alex said. "You're trying to make flying out to Charon and dodging radiation flares sound like a good idea. It's that whole 'I'll put a shitty idea next to a really shitty idea so the first one looks shiny by comparison' thing.